NCAA Championship Bracket

[BenWSU]

http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/baseball/d1/2011

[Shirley Schmidt]

How in the world is "The Class of The Valley", the Creighton BJ's a two seed?

One game against top 50 competition this season gets you a two seed?

[WuDrWu]

Umm....the Big East got 3 bids??????????????

You have to be efffing me. I don't care how bad the Valley is, there isn't one Big East team that could win the Valley.

That's a total joke. UCONN is TERRIBLE. Ok, they beat USC, nice win.

They lost to Purdue, Minnesota and Indiana. AWFUL.

They lost to Sacred Heart.....they were MURDERED by Rhode Island. They tied Holy Cross (2-2 after 16) and lost to Yale.

You're telling me a team like that gets an at large???????? Seriously?

Let's start scheduling some Big East teams. Hell, Kansas would have gone no worse than 6-2 against those teams.

[WuDrWu]

They is no effing way St. Johns and UCONN deserve at large selections any more than I should be wearing an extra small speedo to the beach.


That is a travesty and the NCAA should be disbanded for pure stupidity.

[shockfan89_]

Umm....the Big East got 3 bids??????????????

You have to be efffing me. I don't care how bad the Valley is, there isn't one Big East team that could win the Valley.

That's a total joke. UCONN is TERRIBLE. Ok, they beat USC, nice win.

They lost to Purdue, Minnesota and Indiana. AWFUL.

They lost to Sacred Heart.....they were MURDERED by Rhode Island. They tied Holy Cross (2-2 after 16) and lost to Yale.

You're telling me a team like that gets an at large???????? Seriously?

Let's start scheduling some Big East teams. Hell, Kansas would have gone no worse than 6-2 against those teams.

Am I missing something? The Big East was the 13th best confernce and gets 3 bids and the MVC is the 7th best conference and only gets 1??? The 6th best conference gets 3 teams, the 8th best conference gets 3 teams, the 10th best conference 2 teams...

[WuDrWu]

St Johns Non conference schedule:

14-10

Wins: Michigan, Minnesota (the Big10 lone rep, Illinois, is a 4 seed) Georgia Tech, Georgia Southern x2, Fairfield, Albany x3, Holy Cross, Wagner, Boston College, Hofstra and NYIT.

Ok, give them credit for getting Georgia Tech. Georgia Southern...okay but not exactly huge wins.

But now look at the losses:

Ohio State, Georgia Tech X2 (18-0 aggregate score), Georgia Southern, UNC-Greensboro (2 and Q in the SoCon), UNC (8-1 blowout), Gardner-Webb X2, Long Island University and Iona (14-4).


That's AT LEAST 5 bad losses, and 4 additional totally non-competitive losses.

Something stinks.

[ABC]

Does anyone have the RPIs of the Big East teams and others handy?

I believe WSU's RPI was in the 70s.

[Shirley Schmidt]

Taken from Boyd Nation........

Division I Overall
Rank Rating W L W L Conference

1 0.574 418 272 418 272 SEC
2 0.573 404 277 406 277 ACC
3 0.564 335 234 342 234 Big 12
4 0.557 310 236 310 236 Pac 10
5 0.551 294 220 294 220 C-USA
6 0.525 298 269 301 269 Sun Belt
7 0.522 246 200 254 200 MVC
8 0.521 362 322 367 322 Southland
9 0.520 328 294 329 294 Atlantic Sun
10 0.516 196 201 196 201 Mountain West
11 0.515 247 239 248 239 Big West
12 0.513 216 186 220 186 WAC
13 0.512 342 317 343 319 Big East
14 0.510 287 275 287 275 Big South
15 0.509 322 300 322 300 Southern
16 0.500 262 260 271 262 Big Ten

[SB Shock]

Uconn- 46
St johns - 54

Not outrageous. But it us clear that this NCAA selection committee had an agenda to give northern schools a break. There wil be an equal opposite reaction next year.

[tru2thaduce]

Baylor is a 2 seed?Wow.

[KC Shox]

And once again KSU gets in. Give them props, they were bubble at best during their tourney but ended up getting a few key wins to get them in.

[billybud]

A look at the RPI's of eastern power conferences..in top 20 RPI

ACC...
#1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 14

SEC...
#3, 4, 6, 13, 16

BE...

zip in top 20..UConn is of BE best at #47

[Shirley Schmidt]

And once again KSU gets in. Give them props, they were bubble at best during their tourney but ended up getting a few key wins to get them in.

They have the best D1 Baseball program in the State of Kansas.

[shocker3]

Umm....the Big East got 3 bids??????????????

You have to be efffing me. I don't care how bad the Valley is, there isn't one Big East team that could win the Valley.

That's a total joke. UCONN is TERRIBLE. Ok, they beat USC, nice win.

They lost to Purdue, Minnesota and Indiana. AWFUL.

They lost to Sacred Heart.....they were MURDERED by Rhode Island. They tied Holy Cross (2-2 after 16) and lost to Yale.

You're telling me a team like that gets an at large???????? Seriously?

Let's start scheduling some Big East teams. Hell, Kansas would have gone no worse than 6-2 against those teams.

Am I missing something? The Big East was the 13th best confernce and gets 3 bids and the MVC is the 7th best conference and only gets 1??? The 6th best conference gets 3 teams, the 8th best conference gets 3 teams, the 10th best conference 2 teams...

Typical BcS bias. I am so sick of it.

[SB Shock]

I'm not sure why some are getting that worked up. It is not like they gave WSU bid away. They chose to give some bids to schools that frankly are "Northern" regardless of conference affiliation. If they hadn't give these bids to them then they would have went to LSU or Ole Miss.

The big news is LSU got punished for not playing non-conference road games.

Also I guess in St. Johns case it good to have a representative on the selection committee.

The biggest issue is consistency in selection. This committee used RPI as a tool and looked at other things than just RPI. Next year committee might be the opposite and RPI will rule the selection.